Electric hitch lift run off the light plug to the truck?

[Cyndivg11]

I'm a new owner of a 84 Fiberstream. The tongue on the fiberstream is electric, to raise and lower onto the ball hitch on my truck. When I purchased it, the previous owner had the trailer 'plugged' in, with an extension cord to an electrical outlet- so I don't know if it ran off of that, or if it can run off of the light plug from the truck. I didn't have the right connector when I bought the truck, so we just hooked up a set of walmart trailer lights (brake and turning lights) to pull the trailer home.

This will be an issue when we camp- my husband doesn't want to 'manually' lift the trailer on and off the ball hitch if we are in an area with no electric plug to enable this feature.

I am new to this- so I will be asking alot of questions...

Cyndi

[Ken C]

every type is different but i just read a post on another forum where a person's died. They tried everything with no luck, turns out the fuse was inside the top plastic case of the hitch. Just passing that along in case it might help some day.

[DonDeutsch]

The ones I have had were 12 volt. If the previous owner had the trailer plugged in the 110 v may have been going to a inverter to change voltage to 12 V.

[Bill K]

They are normally wired to the trailer battery.
Trace the wires,look for fuses and make sure the battery is charged.

Bill K

[Greg H]

Yeah, What Bill said.